“When I was in Panama this summer I entered a state of mind, I call it the free state. It’s a place of total contentment, a place of peace, a place of good intention. I surfed, I designed, I built a house. I played, I laughed, I sat in silence. I made a commitment to bring the free state home with me in my daily life, and I remain there. I designed the spring/summer 2013 collection as a group of pieces to wear in your daily life that will remind you of the freedom and happiness of vacation. I say, stay on vacation in your every day life… let the sand stay in your sheets, wear a bikini under your work clothes, turn off the phone, eat a pineapple.”

In early January, the American Astronomical Society held its annual meeting, in Washington, D.C. Tyson was scheduled to give an evening presentation, “Tales from the Twitterverse & Other Media Excursions.” … Tyson talked for an hour and a half; then, as as technicians tried to clear the room, he kept talking, without amplification, to more than a hundred audience members, who mobbed him at the edge of the stage. After a while, a conference organizer walked onstage to drag him off to a reception for which he was already late. Tyson broke into a moonwalk, to roars of approval. “You’re all astronomers–learn to moonwalk!” he said. “You’ll need it one day!”